if anyone says this isnt gay because the two leads didn’t kiss, they don’t understand what romance is. this was one of the Most romantic things i’ve read in a hot minute. these two absolutely love each other and i love this story so much.
Ugly sobbing at the ending. Still ngl I wanted to see more of mary's backstory and what made him precious to [redacted] because from nearly all the flashbacks it's just [redacted] taking care of mary.
Set in Yokohama, this is the story of a priest with a "survival wish" and a vampire with a "death wish".
After hundreds of years, Mary - an immortal vampire with a death wish - finally finds out the whereabouts of Maria - the exorcist who possesses the "Blood of Maria" that can exterminate him. But, it turns out the Maria he found is not the right "Maria"! However, as Maria does inherit the "Blood of Maria", he is constantly being targeted by vampires, so constantly that he hardly has time to catch his breath... And so, Mary makes a proposal to Maria: if Maria pledges to kill him, he will protect Maria from the vampires until the threat is gone, and... The story begins! +
Too many flashbacks and too much queer bait. The only developed romances are straight and everything queer is hinted, but not explicit, or it ended in tragedy. 3/4 of the story is flashbacks for all characters so their personalities and relationships never really develop fluidly, it just switches over time. The story tends to fall through sometimes in many aspects like the school setting where the library was important, but completely forgotten about save for one book. Ichirou just stops attending school. Gendou is a wishy washy villain that disappears halfway through just for a new random villain to pop up out of nowhere to give Hydra a sad backstory. Hydra's romances were a big time failure in my book. WLW representation flew out the window there and her relationship with Mary didn't feel plausible. This was pretty disappointing for a vampire story. The lore wasn't strong enough to support the story either, making Mary a useless, OP MC by the end of it.